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host scott again, proved that you can write. >> guest: i think so. i think he's a visionary. i think he understood the connection between the anti-colonial movements going on around the world and understood how the cold war have prevented us from seeing that we are on the wrong side, that because the communist movement identified itself as anti-colonial to some kind of many of these nationalists wanted to have the union. suicide turns. were opposed to it. >> host: you that the country during the vietnam area. why? >> guest: for me looking back, it wasn't that difficult a choice because i knew i was going to go into the military. o-oscar how did you know? which he drafted? >> guest: i was stressed it several times. i peeled it and try to be a conscientious your bed that was turned down. so it's really coming down to iowa to go to prison for three years? for the world. so i wreck it asked if i left it might not be able to ever come back. and i was a big decision. >> host: when i was reading about, i thought that is a decision between your life and living a life outside of your
host scott again, proved that you can write. >> guest: i think so. i think he's a visionary. i think he understood the connection between the anti-colonial movements going on around the world and understood how the cold war have prevented us from seeing that we are on the wrong side, that because the communist movement identified itself as anti-colonial to some kind of many of these nationalists wanted to have the union. suicide turns. were opposed to it. >> host: you that the...
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. >> guest: but two years later i would be getting a call from coretta scott king where i would be designing the king memorial. >> host: there is another question about the papers in the sermon. there are charges against dr. king. you found someone wanted discoveries. i hate to talk about it, but and full disclosure we have to talk about all these things. >> guest: all the things that are necessary are to not put them on a pedestal. martin luther king was a flawed individual and i found this out when i was going through his academic papers. how old, was he in school? >> guest: he was in college. these were academic papers. it wasn't like he was handing in a paper that he had copied from someone else. it was the way i would look at it is that he was taking passages and sometimes citing them accurately, sometimes not attribute in. >> host: but they preach on the bible -- >> guest: they don't have the college professor. that's the difference. there are specific rules what you can do and can't do, and one of them is everything that you get from another source you attribute to that source >> host
. >> guest: but two years later i would be getting a call from coretta scott king where i would be designing the king memorial. >> host: there is another question about the papers in the sermon. there are charges against dr. king. you found someone wanted discoveries. i hate to talk about it, but and full disclosure we have to talk about all these things. >> guest: all the things that are necessary are to not put them on a pedestal. martin luther king was a flawed individual...
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personal material in the archives i researched the archives of some of his closest friends, francis scott who is happily still with us, but she has given hers to smith college. there are a number of such instances of where i got permission from friends to look at their own paper. their i found some material on his personal life and also any number of interviews with friends and colleagues. a couple of them, the very closest friends on my pledging that they would remain anonymous did tell me quite a bit about the personal as opposed to the political side. >> we are near the end of our time, so i wanted to talk about what you are hoping to get out of this pyrography. something about what you think the legacy of howard zinn is? >> i know what i hope his legacy will be. whether it comes to pass, we will see. i think howard is a perfect example of a citizen who took on the results abilities that he felt every citizen needed to defend democracy was to survive and flourish. in other words to you most it acted even if it is on the local level, and the limited and to price, but you have to be able
personal material in the archives i researched the archives of some of his closest friends, francis scott who is happily still with us, but she has given hers to smith college. there are a number of such instances of where i got permission from friends to look at their own paper. their i found some material on his personal life and also any number of interviews with friends and colleagues. a couple of them, the very closest friends on my pledging that they would remain anonymous did tell me...
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have been inconceivable but 12 years later or two decades later i would be getting a call from coretta scott king more that two days later i would be designing the king memorial. >> host: there's another question about the papers. there are some charges against dr. king. he found someone wanted discoveries. i hate to talk about it but in full disclosure we have to talk about all these things. >> guest: i think it's necessary to not put him on a pedestal. martin luther king was a flawed individual and i found this out when i was going through his academic papers and fighting tooth of finding plagiarism. how old was he when he was doing this? was he in school? >> guest: in college, these were academic papers. it wasn't like he was handing in a paper that he had copied from somebody else. it was -- the way that i would look at it, he was taking passages and sometimes writing them accurately sometimes not attributing. crusco when preachers preach the preach from the bible -- >> guest: and then hand it into a college professor. that's the difference what you can do and what you can't do, and one
have been inconceivable but 12 years later or two decades later i would be getting a call from coretta scott king more that two days later i would be designing the king memorial. >> host: there's another question about the papers. there are some charges against dr. king. he found someone wanted discoveries. i hate to talk about it but in full disclosure we have to talk about all these things. >> guest: i think it's necessary to not put him on a pedestal. martin luther king was a...
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stanford. 1963 was inconceivable that 12 years later a word to decades later to get a call from coretta scott king war i would be designing for designing the king memorial. but there is another question about the papers. there were charges against dr. king. you found an unwanted discoveries. i hate to talk about it but full disclosure. >> guest: i think it is necessary not to put him on a pedestal. he was a flawed individual i found this out when i went through his academic papers and finding plagiarism. >> guest: how old was he? was see in school? >> he was in college academic papers it was not like he was handing in a paper he copied from somebody else but, i'll look at like he was taking passages sometimes writing accurately sometimes not attributing. >> guest: preachers preach. >> but not with a college professor. there are specific rules what you can do and can do and everything you get from another source you attribute to another source. >> host: we need more time. your play. you want to do more with the dr. king legacy than just write a book you have written a play, passages of martin
stanford. 1963 was inconceivable that 12 years later a word to decades later to get a call from coretta scott king war i would be designing for designing the king memorial. but there is another question about the papers. there were charges against dr. king. you found an unwanted discoveries. i hate to talk about it but full disclosure. >> guest: i think it is necessary not to put him on a pedestal. he was a flawed individual i found this out when i went through his academic papers and...